I have an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ on an Abit KV8-Max3 motherboard that has an onboard 3com 3c940 network card.

Each time I boot from the cd it tells me it cannot find any network cards and drops me to a command prompt.

I've searched and found that I need to load a sk98lin driver (I think), but being a N00b I'm not sure how to load that after it drops me to a command prompt, let alone how to restart the installation without rebooting.

I have the same motherboard and just got it installed over the weekend. sk98lin is the correct driver. You just have to do:
modprobe sk98lin
and it will load the driver. You then have to start networking with:
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
or something like that (not sure about the net.eth0 part, but it has eth0 in it)._________________jelliebellie@jabber.org

I have the same motherboard and just got it installed over the weekend. sk98lin is the correct driver. You just have to do:
modprobe sk98lin
and it will load the driver. You then have to start networking with:
/etc/init.d/net.eth0 start
or something like that (not sure about the net.eth0 part, but it has eth0 in it).